Tectonics, Dynamics of continental rifting, Analysis of the evolution of the East African Rift System with special emphasis on the Main Ethiopian Rift, Analogue modeling of deformation processes at various scales (including continental extension, strike-slip deformation, collision, multiphase deformation, magma emplacement, geomorphic processes), Active deformation of the Apennines, Flow dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet and meteorite accumulation, Active tectonics of Central America.

Member of the examing committe for the PhD defence of Jorge Alonso Henar "Evolución tectónica y estructural de la Zona de Falla de El Salvador. Aplicaciones a la amenaza sísmica" presented at the Facultad de Ciencias Geologicas, Universidad Computense de Madrid, Madrid, Spagna, 21 October 2015

Member of the examining committee at the public defence of Hongling Deng "Superimposition of contractional structures in models and nature", Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 27 March 2015

Scientific events and congresses

EGU 2017

Location: Vienna, Austria

Role: Invited speaker

Participation time period: 04/2017 - 04/2017

"Influence of the inherited lithospheric structure on the interaction between the Kenyan and Ethiopian rifts across the Turkana depression: analog and numerical models", Solicited talk session TS6.2 " Tectonic inheritance: the role of pre-existing structures in rifts, margins and orogens", EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna 23-28 April 2017.